This year’s SoundEye Fesitval (Cork, Ireland) will take place from the 13th -15th of July. Readers include Peter Manson, Peter Hughes, Sean Bonney, Rachel Warriner, Trevor Joyce, Swantjie Lichtenstein, Augustus Young, Lisa Jeschke and Mike Wallace-Hadrill with more to be announced soon.
Tom Jenks
Steve McCaffery, cris cheek & Karen Mac Cormack reading at Birkbeck
Wednesday 06 June 2012
Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD
7:30-9:00pm – all welcome
More at the Birkbeck site.
Simon Howard: Jubilee
Out now on Depart e-books.
Paper Nautilus issue 3 launch
- Caitlin Doherty
- Frances Kruk
- Francesca Lisette
- Marianne Morris
- Nat Raha
- Connie Scozzaro
Thursday 7th June from 7- 8.45 pm [doors open 6.30] in Clore 101, the Clore Management Building of Birkbeck College, Torrington Square WC1. More at the Paper Nautilus blog.
Sussex Poetry Festival
Third Annual Sussex Poetry Festival
Friday 8 June
17:00 until 23:00
The Nightingale Theatre Above Grand Central Pub Brighton
Speaker: various
Part of the series: Sussex Poetry Festival
Tickets for the entire weekend are £20 (£15 concessions) or £6 (£4 concessions) for individual panels at the door. The event takes place at…
THE NIGHTINGALE THEATER
29-30 Surrey Street Brighton BN1 3PA
Above the Grand Central bar
Opposite Brighton Train Station
Readings are as follows:
*FRIDAY JUNE 8*
*5:00 Musical Performance of Some Kind – TBA*
*6:00 LEE HARWOOD, ELIZABETH GUTHRIE *
*8.00 NIELS FRANK, REEM KUBBA*
*10:00 RICH OWENS, JOW WALTON, VERITY SPOT*
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*SATURDAY JUNE 9*
*2:00 DREW MILNE LAURA KILBRIDE*
*4:00, SAM SOLOMON, PETER MIDDLETON*
*6.30 DAN SPICER, JULIE CARR, HOLLY PESTER *
*9:00 RALPH HAWKINS, LINH DINH*
*10.30 [BAND – TBA]*
More information at the University of Sussex site. Click here for the flyer.
Helmut Lemke – a preview
Helmut Lemke will perform at the next Other Room on Tuesday 12th June at The Castle in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. For a flavour of his work, try this film of a performance in Sheffield last year or visit his site for much more. The other performers will be Ira Lightman and Peter Jaeger.
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks – Postcards
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks’ collaboration enters its third phase with a collection of digital postcards, featuring John Betjeman, Wallace Stevens and Philip Larkin jostling for position with Sid James, Kenneth Williams and an outsize anthropomorphised sausage. These postcards will be unveiled live at the next of SF Fowler’s Camarade events on 7th July at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green, London. They will also be part of their July 19th performance at The Other Room’s extra summer event in Leeds. More details of this to follow in due course.
SJ Fowler: some new work
The Ofi press has published the first part of SJ Fowler’s collaboration with the photographer Alexander Kell Museum of Death (sample image above), with an interview. Counterexample poetics, edited by Felino Soriano, has also featured SJ Fowler as a featured poet, publishing his wolves in chernobyl. And Exquisite corpse, edited by Andrei Codrescu, has published his Wormwood scrubs, dedicated to Anselm Hollo.
Peter Jaeger: a preview
Peter Jaeger will perform at the next Other Room on Tuesday 12th June at The Castle in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. Peter’s books include Eckhart Cars, Rapid Eye Movement and The Persons. You can find online examples of his work at onedit and an interview at Rob Mclennan’s blog.
The other performers will be Ira Lightman and Helmut Lemke.
The Other Room July update
We can confirm the performers for our July gig at Leeds Gallery (not Leeds Art Gallery). A very special visit from Hazel Smith, Ryan Ormonde coming from London and The Other Room’s Tom Jenks’ and Chris McCabe’s uproarious shindig collaboration Gnomes; now in its third guise. Before that of course at our new home in Manchester, The Castle, we welcome Peter Jaeger, Ira Lightman and Helmut Lemke on June 12th, details in the column to the right. August 14th in Manchester sees Frank Kuppner, Nathan Jones and David Gaffney whoop it up.
Chris McCabe book launch
Chris McCabe will launch his new book THE RESTRUCTURE on Thursday 14th June, 7pm-midnight at The George (upstairs room) 213 Strand, London WC2R 1AP. Map here.
Blackbox Manifold Issue 8
- Rae Armantrout
- Alison Brackenbury
- Iain Britton
- Richard Brown
- Alison Brackenbury
- Vahni Capildeo
- Alan Halsey
- K J Hays
- Rich Ives
- Agnes Lehoczky
- Fran Lock
- Lisa Mansell
- Sarah McKee
- Drew Milne
- Bob Perelman
- Michael Scharf
- Zoe Skoulding
- Catherine Vidler
Available now at the Blackbox Manifold site.
Damn the Caesars | Crisis Inquiry | Cambridge Launch Readings
Saturday, June 2, 2012, 2:00pm. Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, West Road, Cambridge. Featuring performances from:
- Sean Bonney
- Ryan Dobran
- Danny Hayward
- Rosa van Hensbergen
- Owen Holland
- Laura Kilbride
- Frances Kruk
- Joe Luna
- Marianne Morris
- Richard Owens
- Reitha Pattison
- Nat Raha
- Luke Roberts
- Skeletor
Free Entry | All welcome | Cake
Closed Caption
A publishing project by Orla Foster and Peter Martin, utilising found and manipulated text and images. Publications so far include Lovely Little Nutmegs, a sequence of poems made from football commentary. More information at the Closed Caption site.
Maintenant at the Poetry Parnassus
Four events at London’s Southbank Centre:
Tuesday 26th June 7pm – 9pm in the Blue Room
Maintenant celebration reading I: Pekko Kappi, Christodoulos Makris, Damir Sodan, Endre Ruset & more poets to be announced…
Friday 29th June 5pm – 6pm in the Level 5 Function Room
Maintenant: Poetry from the Balkans – Damir Šodan, Ana Ristovic, Doina Ioanid, Taja Kramberger, Luljeta Lleshanaku & more poets to be announced…
Saturday 30th 7pm-9pm in the White Room
Maintenant: a celebration of the avant garde & the experimental: James Wilkes, Holly Pester, Kirsty Irving, Sam Riviere, Vahni Capildeo, Audrey Brown-Pereira, Rocío Cerón & more poets to be announced…
Sunday 1st July 1pm – 2pm in the Clore Ballroom
Maintenant celebration reading II: Donatas Petrosius, Agnes Lehoczky, Immanuel Mifsud, Gerdur Kristny, Nigar Hasan Zadeh & more poets to be announced…
Poetry & Revolution @ Xing the Line
Friday, May 25, 2012, 7:30pm. The Apple Tree, Mount Pleasant, London WC1X.
- Tom Leonard
- Jack Hirshman
- Ziba Karbassi
- Marianne Morris
- Sean Bonney
- Harry Gilonis
Streetcake issue 23
- Eleanor Bennett
- Lorna Callery
- Sophie Clarke
- J.R. Clarke
- William Garvin
- Jo Langton
- Siofra McSherry
- Ali Znaidi
Available now on the Streetcake site.
South of the River videos
Films of the South of the River symposium, organised by Emily Critchley, are now available. The list in full is as follows:
Allen Fisher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9uCiOsslUF0
D S Marriott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3pbRCQ4wpfQ
Jeff Hilson (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbEcoRMncLYc
Jeff Hilson (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DgpXc6Pl2UrI
Carol Watts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQVIFHx4V-qk
Iain Sinclair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DaRGrII8CBeY
Ira Lightman: a preview
Ira Lightman will perform at the next Other Room on Tuesday 12th June at The Castle in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. For a flavour of Ira’s work, try this film of a recent reading at JibbaJabba, Ira’s own site, some poems at Salt Publishing or some more poems at Peony Moon. His most recent book is PHONE IN THE ROLL, is published by The Knives Forks and Spoons press.
Performing with Ira will be Peter Jaeger and Helmut Lemke. Previews of both to follow soon.
Robert Sheppard and Patricia Farrell
Monday 11th June at 8.30p.m at the New Beehive Inn, Westgate, Bradford BD1 3AA. (About 10 minutes walk from either Interchange or Foster square railway stations). Entry is by a £3.00 donation.
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